The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

tage OF 1866
| GREAT EXCITEMENT prevails at Bismarck, D.
T., over the killing of one of the largest pan
theirs ever seen in that country. 1t measured 3
| feet from tip of nose to tip of tail.
ALL the Territorial Governors of Wisconsin
are dead. Nelson Dewey, the first State Cover
nor is still living, as are also ex- Cows. Farwel
Solomon, Lewis, Fairchild, Taylor and Ludng-
ton
THE Boston women appear TO be losing
| interest in their elective franchise. The number
registered to vote at the school elections this
year is only S37, as against l., 1893 last year and
2,235 in 1855.
THE largest electric light in the world is in the
lighthouse at Sydney, Australia 1t has the
power of 10000 candles, and can be seen at sea
! fifty miles distant Americas largest light,
1000 caadlepower, is at San Jose, Cal
THE first merchandise that crossed the ew
bridge at Dubuque was nine barrels of whisky
from Illinois into prohibition Iowa. The first
person to cross the ice bridge between Lyons
and Fulton carried two jugs of whisky.
PUBLIC MEETINGS in favor of early closing are
being held in London. 1t is alleged that the
average hours of English shop girls and clerks
are from thirteen to fourteen day. There is
an early-closing bill now before Parliament.
LONDON Truth, describing a loud young
American girl who has been shopping considera-
Diy III LOIuOn recently, says UndU Unefe is some
| fun in her recent remark TO very lazy sales
woman. Look here" said the American, ARE
you above your place, or have you got a tooth
ache"
GEN. THOMAS, who rented the country resi-
dence of the late Henry Ward Beecher at Peeks-
| kill recently vacated this delightful homestead,
| finding Hudson river country life unsuted to
his taste. This mansion and the broad acres
about it have not been sold as was once re-
ported.
AN ARTIST of Boston gives receptions at
| which two small white cats are permitted to be
present EACH with a scarlet ribbon bow and
collar, is the object of much attention, and the
| pair make a lively addition TO the company
One of the little cats performs q variety Of
tricks, and is as sociable as he is bright.
| WOMEN are steadily forcing their way in the
industrial world. The South Brooklyn Ferry
| Company has substituted women for men as
| collectors on both sides of the river They
work ten hours day and receive a salary of
| $50 per month. They have not only proved
themselves as efficient as men, but more honest
! WHILE the Queens hounds recently were
chasing deer in England, the animal took to
railroad track, and presently rounded a curve
| right in the face of an express going forty-ive
| miles an hour. The deer swerved in time to
save its life, but the pack following close behind
! ran square into the locomotive, and several of
them were cut to pieces.
English CUSTOM OFFICERS are puzzled what to
do about goods made in Germany and France,
| with English marks put on them, sent to En-
| gland, and then reshipped to other countries as
English goods. If they permit the goods to pass
| through diScredit is cast upon English manufac-
lures, and if they stop them English vessels lose
| the job of carrying the goods.
THE latest explanation of the way in which
the ancient Egyptians erected their enormous
| monoliths and obelisks is that Enclosures were
were made around the huge stones as they lay
| horizontally on the ground, floats were attached
| to the upper ends of the stones, water was
| then introduced into the Enclosures and the
| monolithS We're hoated into an upright posi-
| ton.
| JACKSONVILLE, ILL, has been sued by a man
| who seeks to recover damages caused by run
| away horse, which, he says was frightened by
| a bicycle He claims that the CITY was guilty
| of neglect in not preventing the use of bicycles
| on the streets The City Attorney is in consulta-
| ton with leading wheelmen and officials of the
| Wheelmens League, who are giving him points
| for the defense.
THERE is on exhibition in a Pttsburg show
| window an image which was dug up by farm
| err who was blowing, near Montgomery, Ala
| 1t has human head upon a bird-like body with
| a fantail and is carved in stone The face is
| purely Egyptian, and across the head is some
| thing resembling an amice placed in such a
| manner as to leave the entire forehead revealed
| The figure is 1919 inches bng and 9A inches
high and weighs twenty-one pounds.
OF the Davy family, of Rochester, the eldest
| girl is in the workhouse incorrgbe, the
| father is jailed a drunkard and Esau, the
eldest son, aged 0, being left at home in charge
of his three sisters. aged 5, and 8, took them to
| a church.where the whole party loaded up with
| Bibles, hymn books and fans, and got well away
| before they were overhauled by a policeman
| and taken to the station. There three silver
| watches were found in Esau's pockets He and
! his sisters were sent to charitable institution
| An oil 81 III;
viction that some people cannot learn to SPELL
no matter how much pains they take 1t is
constitutional defect, he thinks. In some in
| stances it seems to depend upon the health A
| man who knows how to spell Wednesday when
he is in good condition, lapses into ''Wensdy
| when he has the headache; and boy who can
| spell down a whole school in the morning will
| make forty mistakes in writing a short note
when he is sleepy in the evening, Shakespeare
| evidently had these facts in view when he made
! Dogberry declare that reading and writing
come by nature"
| The Galician frontier of Austr ia is long
| round curve hemmed in by Russia and practi-
| cally undefended by strong Notifications; nor
| do the dispositions of the peace establishment
of the Austrian army give it full protection. No
natural line of defense exists until the Carpa
| thians are reached and the first act of Russia if
ever war comes would be to spread cloud of
cavalry COssacks and mounted infantry over the
plains of Galicia, destroying Austrian lines of
communication ana preventing mobilization.
| This weak point renders Austria sensitive to
| every gathering of Russian troops upon her
frontier, and while it is difficult to believe that
| Russia can mean war by her concentration of
| troops the defense of Austria is sufficiently
| precarious at this point to make military pre-
cautions ready at every threat of Russia.
EDWARD WESTON, the electrician, says: ut is
well known that the nitrate of amyl possesses
the power of causing insensibility very quickly
in human being breathing its fumes. The
effect is equivalent temporarily to a paralvtic
stroke Now, nitrate of amyl is very cheap and
plentiful. propose to fire shells filled with this
chemical instead of gunpowder. 1t will not be
necessary to penetrate ship. few gallons of
this nitrate dashed on the deck of a war shin
would soon render her crew helpless The most
powerful iron-cads would be even more wilmer
able than the light cruisers, for they would be
sucking down light draughts of air through
their artificial ventilators, and the odor would
thus rapidly permeate the whole ship. The
whole crew being rendered helpless for an hour
or two, the ship could, of course, be towed into
safe spot, while the captors ventilated her and
removed the insenSible men,"
THE FORMAL ANNOUNCEMENT by China of the
independence of Corea is an act of statesman
ship that sets at rest possible source of trouble
on the eastern coast of Asia, AM enables foreign
countries to deal freely with what was not long
ago the hermit kingdom" 1t may be said that
China, in this case, made virtue of necessity
| Ihat. however, is not SO clear. Compared with
her vast military and naval power, lnodernized
as IL has been of late by the Introduction If a.,